Food for diabetics.



Fopd for Diabetics,

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDUARD LAMrn, or FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, GERMANY, assrenon r0 FARBEN- FABRIKEN VORM. rnrnnn. BAYER & oo., or ELBERFELD, GERMANY, A. oonrorm- TION OF GERMANY.

No Drawing.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDUARD LAMPidoctor of medicine, citizen of the German Empire, residingat Frankfort-on-the-Main,Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements of which the followlng isa specification.

The present invention relates to the manufacture and production of a new food, which is free from all substances harmful to diabetics.

For producing" this new material soybeans are freed from the shells and then treated with boiling water until a pulpy mass is obtained. This process is advantageously carried out by the addition of such chemicals as bicarbonate of soda, a ood method bein the addition of 300 g. o bicarbonate. ot soda to 60 kg. soybeans. By the treatment with boiling water the carbohydrates and other water soluble substances Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 4, 1910. Serial No. 575,897.

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Patented Jan. 3, 1911.

are dissolved away and a product is obtained which after being dried and pulverized is a yellowish powder insoluble in water,- retainmg the nutritive fatty and albuminoid substances, but ,free from carboh drates which renders it valuable as a food fbr diabetics.

I claim:

A product obtained from soy-beans which after being dried and pulverized is a yellowish powder insoluble in water, retaining the nutritive fatty and albuminoid substances, but free from carbohydrates which renders tially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing wltnesses.

. EDUARD LAMPE. Witnesses:

JEAN GRUND, CARL GRUND.

1t valuable as a food for diabetics, substan-- 

